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Wairarapa Times-Age FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941. HITLER’S LATEST MASQUERADE.

$ TRULY aslonishing feature of current German propaganda is the attempt the Nazis are making to pose as the champions of Christian civilisation against Bolshevik barbarism. As any owner of a short-wave wireless set may ascertain for liimse.lf, if he has not already done so, the Nazis and their jackal, allies in Home are day by day advancing the claim that in his attack on Russia Hitler is acting as the champion and defender of Christian civilisation. The mentality which is capable even of attempting to perpetrate this preposterous perversion of the truth passes understanding, but the attempt, is being made. Although they have demonstrated, within the Reich and in every country they have invaded and defiled, that their only “religion” is that of blood-lust and debased racialism, the Nazis are inviting the world to regard them as paladins of the, Christian faith. Almost incredible as it may appear, there does not seem to be any doubt that an attack on Russia has appealed to Hitler and his accomplices as a means of securing “at least a truce with Britain and a waning tendency to intervention, and even to rearmament, in the United States.” The words just quoted are those of Air Joseph C. Harsch, who returned recently to the United States, after being for an extended period Berlin correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor.” In an article in that newspaper, Air Harsch states that in discussion with German Foreign Office officials, he found them of opinion that a move into Russia .“would not only appeal to the right wing elements in the United States, who would probably rc : cover some of their former fondness for Germany as the alleged ‘bulwark against Communism,’ bul would also lie calculated to allay fear among all elements.” Air Harsch goes mi to sketch the course Hitler might, be expected to lake if he succeeded in inducing the United States to relapse into isolation and indifference and was thereby enabled to impose a truce on Britain. Hitler’s course, the American writer suggests, would be: — First, to complete the conquest of all continental Europe, including Russia. Second, to conclude a superficially favourable peace with Britain, promising many advantages including continuation of the British Empire. Third, to spend the succeeding five years consolidating Germany’s continental position to the point where it would be virtually unshakable, meanwhile lulling American concern by every conceivable show of peaceful intention. At the end of that fiveyear period Herr Hitler could have Britain and South America without fighting and the ’United States might be by then receptive to whatever he had to offer. It may be hoped that there is a full and ample safeguard against, any approach to a realisation of these Nazi hopes in the fact, that the democracies on both sides of the Atlantic are awake to the true nature of the Nazi menace and perceive very clearly that a Nazi victory would entail the enslavement of all other nations. Wjth the fads written large for al! to see, every free human being, whether a citizen of the British Empire, the United States or any other democracy, is bound as a matter of morality, justice and self-preservation to support unreservedly the declaration made a day or two ago by the British Prime Minister, Air Winston Churchill:— We have but one aim, and one single, irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From that nothing will turn us —nothing. We will never parley, never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him on land, we shall fight him at sea, and in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and rid the peoples of his yoke. Any man or State who fights against Nazism will have our aid. Any man or State who marches with Hitler is our foe. . . . Fortunately there does not seem lo bo any doubt that the vital realities of the life and death struggle in which we are engaged with Nazism are grasped as clearly by an overwhelming weight of public opinion in the United States as in the countries of the British Empire and their allies. ~The American Government, like the British Government, has decided to give all possible help to Russia, in her resistance to the Nazi invasion, and announced orders and rulings by President! Roosevelt show that measures are already being taken to carry that decision into practical effect. No other course is' consistent either with justice or with common sense than to welcome every opportunity of co-operating with Russia Io defeat; and destroy Nazism.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 4

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Wairarapa Times-Age FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941. HITLER’S LATEST MASQUERADE. Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 4

Wairarapa Times-Age FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941. HITLER’S LATEST MASQUERADE. Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 4

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